Published 22:20 IST, October 10th 2019
Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid spends $3 million on a horse
Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum spent approximately $3 million on a young Dubawi horse which is the half-brother Greenham stakes winner
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Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum reportedly visited Tattersalls October Yearling Sale in newmarket England on October 8. He spent approximately $3 million on a young horse who was a subject of a fierce bidding war. Sheikh who is also founder of successful Goldphin horse racing stable paid millions for Dubawi colt, which is half-bror to 2017 Greenham stakes winner Barney Roy. Dubai Sheikh was also to attend High Court hearing in his legal battle with his ex-wife and inste, he was bidding pounds at a racehorse auction.
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Legal battle
Sheikh who is in an unprecedented legal battle between Jordan's Princess Haya was reportedly represented at High Court by his lawyer Lord Pannick QC, who is widely kwn for representing Gina Miller at UK Supreme court. Princess Haya, 45, half-sister of Jordan's King Abdullah II and a member of country's ruling Hashemite family, h fled to London where she has brought a case against her husband. couple h married in 2004. After reportedly leaving UAE some time ago, Haya applied for a British forced marri protection order, as well as wardship of ir children, and a n-molestation order relating to herself.
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Princess Haya was reportedly sixth wife of Sheikh Mohammed. y have one daughter, 11, and a son, seven. According to Andreas Krieg, a professor at King's College London, issue is a family affair between Al-Maktoum's and Hashemites -- ruling families in Dubai and Jordan. ripple effects for international relations between both countries will be limited. Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, also ruled out any "real diplomatic or political problem" between Jordan and UAE. Only four days before court hearing in London, King Abdullah II visited Abu Dhabi, where he stressed ir family ties. Jordan has struggled in past years with unprecedented humanitarian and financial crises after hundreds of thousands of refugees poured across border to escape Syria's civil war.
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(With inputs from ncies)
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21:08 IST, October 10th 2019